Ajithkumar Balakrishnan Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Australia

Develop and implement AdroitMinds strategic goals and objectives.Identify and pursue new business opportunities.Build and maintain relationships with key clients and stakeholders.Ensure high levels of client satisfaction and address any issues or concerns promptly.Engage with stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations.Oversee project management and delivery to ensure client satisfaction.Implement and maintain quality standards and best practices.Hire, train, and develop staff to build a strong and competent team.Promote innovation and the adoption of new technologies within the company.Manage the company's budget and ensure financial stability.Oversee financial performance, including revenue growth, profitability, and cost management.

Founded AdroitMinds Software Labs - an IT Consulting, Services and EdTech Product companyResponsible for customer acquisition, business development, stakeholder management, program management, strategy and finance.Started Mobile, BI and RPA development and support servicesProduct owner for EdTech products Established state of the art development centre at Technopark, Trivandrum. Started office at Melbourne, Australia,Expanded clients base to USA, UK, Europe and Australia

Usa & India

Responsible for business critical application development, maintenance and support of an ongoing set of projects with an objective of supporting the insurance business of Allianz US, France and Ireland entities. Supported applications portfolio includes commercial insurance, entertainment insurance and internal applications. Also, responsible for leading a support and operations team handles Database Administration, Environment set up and release management. Technology used are Microsoft Technologies mainly .NET and SharePoint, Java, Mainframe, ETL tools like DataStage, Databases like DB2, Oracle and SQL Server.Played a key role in implementing SOC2 compliance for the US engagement and assisted the third-party vendor auditors.Successfully completed (Operational Excellence) OPEX Blue belt (Allianz version of Six Sigma) training and certification

Uk & India

Responsible for application development and maintenance of RM’s assessment and data services products which enables eTesting, eMarking and Data Analysis. These set of products will help the schools, universities and professional bodies (eg: Chartered Accountant bodies like ICAEW, ACCA etc.) to conduct online assessment, online marking and data analysis. Technology used are Microsoft Technologies mainly .NET technology stack, SQL Server, SSAS and SSRS.Played onsite coordination manager (based out of UK) role for RM’s data assessment and services division which consists of 4 complex and big products.Played a key role in building 80+ members team from existing 30+ members team.Prepared curriculum, schedule and coordinated organization level fresher’s training programme.

Germany & India

Major responsibility was to design, development and unit testing of PLUS system using .NET technologies. The PLUS (Produktions Leit-Und- Steuerungs) system is the standard software of DaimlerChrysler AG for controlling productions at the assembly plants of its Mercedes-Benz passenger car and smart product lines. This is a Client Server application developed using .NET technology stack and SQL Server

Usa, Uk & India

Major responsibility was to design, development and unit testing of various web and desktop applications using .NET technologies. Major applications worked includes intranet application for Volvo using content manager server (MCMS 2002) and .NET, Volvo’s main site www.volvo.com, customer self-service portal for USA based marketing company Progeny Marketing etc.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Major responsibility was to design, development and unit testing of various desktop applications using VC++, Visual Basic 6.0 and .NET technologies. Major applications worked includes storage array configuration application for Hewlett Packard (HP) high end Extend Platform storage arrays like XP 512, XP 1024 etc. and configuration and display application for chromatographic device analyzers.